Fishermen Worry that Ocean Wind Farms Are Ruining Environment and Their Livelihoods

All his life, Chris Brown, a commercial fisherman based in Port Judith, Rhode Island, has caught codfish, flounder, herring, squid, fluke, and other species from the waters around Block Island. After the Block Island Wind Farm began operations off Rhode Island in December 2016, many of the fish disappeared, he told The Epoch Times. “The year that the towers were simply vertical structures and were not producing electricity, we caught significant amounts of codfish—20,000 to 30,000 pounds—fishing around the base of the turbines and a couple of miles away,” he said. “After they hit the switch, I caught less than 100 pounds the following year.”...